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Another Hi Rise
Another Hi Rise
Leo


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Challenge: Construction II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D60
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: Portland, OR
Date: Jun 13, 2009
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Urban
Date Uploaded: Jun 15, 2009

 Shot on a Saturday, jobsite was shutdown. I would liked to have gotten workers doing their thing but wasn't able to. Guessing this will get dinged for being boring, sky being blown.

Statistics
Place: 33 out of 70
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Avg (commenters): 6.7500
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Avg (non-participants): 5.2164
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Views during voting: 274
Votes: 167
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 06/30/2009 08:39:57 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Congratulations on getting your second best score and by beating your estimate by a quite a bit.

I think you did well on your composition, though it's just a bit crowded on top of the crane and if possible it might have been nice to see the lower part of the buildings.

The completed buildings frame the under construction building well. Your title emphasizes that as well as maybe giving an unfortunate inevitability of progress feeling, but I might be reading too much into it.

As you and another said the sky is pretty blown out. I get the same white skies too often and I haven't figured out the best cure for it. Maybe underexposing it all or exposing for the sky, but then the subject would be underexposed. I think you did the best you could with Basic Editing.

I like the geometric patterns shown in the picture; the horizontal layers of the building under construction, the lines of the crane and the checkerboard pattern of the windows in the completed buildings. The orange on the left side of the building blends well with the orange of the crane and top of the building and nicely offsets the monotone gray of the rest of the shot.

As you said, it would be more interesting with people working on the building. With that not a possibility maybe pulling back some more and getting more of the building and the surrounding buildings would be good.

Overall you did pretty well on this, and a few small improvements may have helped you get a better score.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/21/2009 12:06:47 PM
Hey!! I can almost see my condo off to the left!! Nice shot of the Mirabella
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 06/20/2009 12:59:06 PM
Nice capture, very interesting building to photograph. Shame about the sky... a little too overexposed for me.
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 06/18/2009 11:09:01 PM
The high contrast is very different and I like it. Great composition and focus. I think your photo should place very, very high.
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 06/17/2009 10:56:34 PM
i like this, the angle is good, the crop is good, the building in the back is great, nice work man!
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